The National Association of Media and Technology
Centers (NAMTC) is excited to announce the 8th Leadership Summit
to be held April 19-22, 2007 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Radisson Green Tree Hotel will be the location for powerful
professional development opportunities. Registration is
available at www.NAMTC.org,
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Ten professional development
sessions will be offered at the Leadership Summit. Hall Davidson=92s
topic will be =93Thinking Bigger with Media While the World Gets
Smaller,=94 and available as a podcast following the Summit.
Keith Krueger, CEO for the Consortium for School Networking, will give an
update on federal E-Rate and EETT funding. Other topics
covered will be =93On-line Courses With Visual Media: It=92s Here,
It=92s Now, It=92s Time=94 by Ross Davis, Seattle Community Colleges
Television; =93K-12 Use of Internet2=94 by Michael Lambert and Wendy
Huntoon of the Pittsburgh Super Computer Center; =93Learning Online in
the Lab Sciences=97a Number of Hits!=94 by Gail Wortmann, Iowa Learning
Online; and Tim Lucas will conclude the Summit with a session directed at
educational media and technology leadership, called =93Dealing with
Rapid Change.=94 There will also be Best Practice presentations
and panel discussions led by NAMTC institutional members, covering
statewide cooperative purchasing, statewide digital initiatives, IP
based video and use of online resources for K-12 teachers.

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all
of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of
spectacles."

--Guy Debord
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